Github API example creating a class

GithubApi.scala

import dispatch._
import net.liftweb.json._

// Nothing to this class
class GithubClass

/**
 * A github user
 */
case class User(login: String,        // login name of hte user
                id: Int,              // numeric github ID
                avatar_url: String,   // URL to their avatar pic
                url: String)          // API url to retrieve JSON of the user
    extends GithubClass

/**
 * A single code repo.
 */
case class Repo(name: String,
                clone_url: String)
    extends GithubClass

class GithubApi {
    // Needed for Lift JSON, don't remove/modify
    implicit val formats = net.liftweb.json.DefaultFormats

    /**
     * Makes an HTTP request to Github, and returns the response as a list
     * of the class that you specify in [] when calling this
     */
    def getData[T <: GithubClass : Manifest](path: String) : List[T] = {
        val h = new Http
        val req = url("https://api.github.com/" + path)

        // Gets both the headers and response body
        val rspStr = h(req as_str)
        val rspJVal = parse(rspStr)
        val rspList = rspJVal.children
        for (jObj <- rspList) yield jObj.extract[T]
    }
}

val gh = new GithubApi
val repos = gh.getData[Repo]("users/brentsowers1/repos")
for (repo <- repos) {
    println("Repo name: " + repo.name)
    println("Clone url: " + repo.clone_url)
}

val users = gh.getData[User]("repos/brentsowers1/googlestaticmap/watchers")
for (user <- users) {
    println("Watcher login: " + user.login)
}